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Thanks for the responses. This will give me several items to check. I was ripping, it did seem like the blade (and not the moror) speed was what slowed down, the speed control seems to be working fine and I had the same problem when attempting (process was not successful) to resaw a piece of 3/4inch ...

I have a unit purchased in about 1992 and not used significantly until recently. I have been using it for a variety of projects and was cutting 1.5 inch maple and had a difficult time cutting without the motor bogging down (to the point of stopping). It would cut verrryyyy sloowwwlllyyyy but I gave ...